When falling down the internet “rabbit hole” recently, I came across a play that’s currently showing in New York. “The Pocket Kids Park” is all about a group of young friends and park visitors in conversation about how to save their local...
You don’t have to be big or powerful to contribute to climate action. Just think of zooplankton, tiny animals that are responsible for locking away as much planet-warming carbon as the annual emissions of roughly 55 million petrol cars (the equivalent of 65...
In early June, Leif Weatherby, the Director of NYU’s Digital Theory Lab, wrote a piece for the New York Times entitled “A.I. Killed the Math Brain”. In it, he puts forward the worry that “we, as a society, will become innumerate, not just...
Let’s reflect on cigarettes today and consider the scale of the problem they introduce: Cigarette butts are the most common item of litter collected from beach cleanups – worldwide, they amount to 845,000 tons of litter per year. An estimated 4.5 trillion...
One of the most hopeful things neuroscience tells us is that we are natural explorers. Curiosity isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s how learning happens. Molecular biologist John Medina points out that, in learning environments, attention drops sharply after about ten...
